Years ago, I met a fellow veteran at a promotion event for one of my novels. The man suffered from traumatic brain injury, sustained in an improvised explosive device attack on his vehicle during his deployment to Iraq. Due to his injury, he wore one of those soft helmets, and he misunderstood basic social cues. […]

On Aug. 15, 1824, as the summer sun sank over New York Harbor, a huge crowd pressed against the wharves, straining for a glimpse of the Cadmus. Church bells rang out as the ship eased into view, and on its deck stood the figure they had all come to see: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de […]

When screenwriter, playwright, television scenarist, and denouncer of leftist pieties and prejudices Paddy Chayefsky wrote the movie Network in 1976, he made television seem awfully small. Here was a film, released by that most forward-looking of studios, United Artists, with A-list movie stars (Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall) and several bona fide screen legends (William Holden, […]

The sole gubernatorial debate between Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and former Rep. Abigail Spanberger quickly devolved into a fight over the disturbing text messages in which Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones speculated about killing a Republican colleague.

President Trump boasted Thursday that Israeli hostages in Gaza would be home in days, the Pentagon drafted plans to lead a peacekeeping force in the region and the Israeli government approved a ceasefire with Hamas.

The Florida city of St. Petersburg, long a bastion of LGBTQ+ rights and mindful of its racially segregated past, is considering approval of two flags recognizing those issues. The move comes after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered similar street murals erased because of supposedly political messages.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Thursday reasserted the unproven link between the pain reliever Tylenol and autism, and suggested people who opposed the theory were motivated by hatred for President Donald Trump.